Hackable smartband debuts on Indiegogo
Old fitness bands may soon die out as a new smartband that aims to let users track their activities, as well as control connected devices around them, is now up for crowdfunding. From Mighty…
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One of Salesforce.com’s top partners is now cozying up to Microsoft
After years of only supporting Salesforce.com, cloud unicorn Apttus Inc. is integrating its popular billing automation service with Microsoft Corp.’s competing Dynamics CRM platform. The move appears to be linked to the customer relationship management giant’s…
Watch Blizzard’s second Overwatch animated short featuring Widowmaker
By Eric David
It has been only two weeks since Blizzard Entertainment released the first animated short for its highly-anticipated upcoming game, Overwatch, and now the second short has already arrived. “Alive” stars Widowmaker, a sniper hero…
Nintendo’s Miitomo is awful, so why am I still using it?
By Eric David
Nintendo Co Ltd’s first official mobile app, Miitomo, launched worldwide last week, and it has already surged to the top of the download charts in the App Store. My first impression toward Miitomo was…
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What you missed in Big Data: Enabling faster analytics
Although the venture capital community is much less generous with its cash than it was a year ago, promising analytics startups are still more than capable of raising funding. Last week saw the investor appeal…
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What you missed in Cloud: Improving infrastructure visibility
Like the rest of the industry, the movers and shakers of the cloud ecosystem turned their attention to the Microsoft Build summit last week, which saw the software powerhouse introduce a host of new…
Kid developer faces VMware pro in CUBEmadness Finals: VOTE NOW!
CUBEmadness 2016 has seen victory and defeat, as 64 of the best interviews in tech coverage dueled to reach the Finals. Now, thanks to your votes, only two remain. These two contestants, incredible interviews…
Tech IPOs fall off a cliff: Not one in the first quarter of this year
The market for tech IPOs has nosdived. Not one tech or Internet-related firm went public on the U.S. stock exchanges in the first quarter of 2016, according to newly published data from Dealogic, which…
Microsoft’s DocumentDB gets into bed with MongoDB
If you’re fluent in MongoDB you might be interested to know that Microsoft’s recently launched take on the NoSQL database, DocumentDB, now supports drivers for the latter. Which means that if you have existing…
Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt raises $4m Series A from Overstock.com
By Duncan Riley
Caribbean-based Blockchain cryptocurrency startup Bitt, Inc. has raised $4 million Series A from Overstock.com, Inc. Founded in 2016, Bitt offers a digital asset exchange whose core focus is on providing access to cryptocurrencies in…